I would want to continue to use NMEA and not SIRF, only reason I brought up SIRF was that you asked me for my version, which I assumed was the firmware version. Since one of the issues is that I can't get firmware version through the NMEA command, I asked if there was a way to get it using SIRFDemo and SIRF.

As I written twice above, GPS Info will not give me that information. Sending a cold start in GPS Info won't give me the version of the firmware.Furthermore, the boxes for SIRF and Firmware version are both greyed out.

No, the boxes that should have contained the Sirf Version and the FW Version are both greyed out. The other parts I've masked due to privacy (might have overdone it and probably should have used a color other than grey...)